How much can we say that Steve Ditko was screwed if he refused to take the money? [Permanent Damage]
Also: "In [0]1967, Ditko was about the only guy in comics using mainstream comics for personal expression."

It sounds like a collision of "Apple 'censorship' absurdity" with the equivalent of "creators of a new photo-viewing application dumbassly (or done on purpose to brilliantly get attention) bundle it with sample nudie pics when they shop app around to conservative companies".

No One has ever been Ripped Off as badly by the Comics Industry as Steve Ditko [Blog.Kobek.com]

Fascinating mail between DC and Jerry Siegel re: Superman from 01939 through 01947 now available- recommended reading [Uncivil Society] [PDF]
Comics is an industry built on exploitation; an industry "that so loves its Colonel Parkers and so distrusts its Elvis Presleys" [Comics Reporter]

Virgin Comics Shut Down [Publishers Weekly] [via The Beat]
It's always sad to see a comicbook publisher go under. It seems obvious now without the fog of eternal hope that Deepak-Chopra-"written" really-for-movies-not-comics comic books about Hindu mythology weren't going to fly very far in the hermetically-sealed-by-monopoly American Direct Market. But operations targeted at the South Asian consumer market to continue.

Nothing is better code for "doctor" in comics than that forehead mirror thing [Polite Dissent]

A big kudos and thanks to Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover for "Un-Enchanted Evening", their charming story in the recent King-Size Spider-Man Summer Special, which includes a Clea who's strong and competent (with new Coover-designed costume), and worthy of a potential Annual Neilalien Award for Best Appearance of a Dr.-Strange-Affiliated Character. Check it out!

People scan magazines and upload them to offshore Mygazines.com; digital piracy without grokking P2P [AP news story at Yahoo] [via Waxy]
If a comics equivalent, or just simply using Mygazines for comics, doesn't already exist, it will in about two seconds.

[Former Marvel Comics editor Carl] Potts said that no one could match Ditko's prowess on showing emotion. "Nobody in comics had ever done anything like it," he said. "We tried to imitate it later. It was ground-breaking."

Even-handed skepticism for the too-quickly-solidified tale that Steve Ditko uses his own legendary art as a cutting board [Four Realities]

Love for Strange and Stranger, but questioning a meme of the book that a bunch of money would justify Ditko tolerating more comic-industry disrespectful treatment [Stephen Bissette]
"As one who likewise stepped away from the industry, Ditko's decisions and behavior seems utterly pragmatic and justified."

The Dark Night and International Politics [Cogitamus]
The Dark Knight has some simplisticness-defying depth to it, and the politicos have definitely seen what they've wanted to see in it. This text is the best Neilalien's found so far, as (1) a mini-overview of the debate, (2) a refreshing critique of reading The Dark Knight politically in general and as right-wing validation in particular (re: Batman/Bush/America heroically, reputation-riskingly, and justifiably by any means necessary, opposing a nonrational Joker/Al Qaeda threat) and (3) offering a solid opposing progressive reading of the film re: Batman/Bush/America as a disastrous creator of Joker blowbacks in a broken international law-order system (Gotham).

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